Orchestras Canada

As our readers may recall, last week’s issue of Orchestra News included an item about the launch of Sistema New Brunswick, a new offering of the New Brunswick Youth Orchestra, inspired by the remarkable Venezuelan program.  We had a follow-up note from Ottawa Youth Orchestra Academy director John Gomez about another, Sistema-inspired organization that’s been [...]

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A number of Quebec orchestras and ensembles will be highlighting their new seasons through participation in Les Journées de la Culture, from September 25-27.  Les Journées are a project of Culture pour tous, an organization whose mission is to contribute to the democratization of culture in Quebec and which “arose from the firm conviction that [...]

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Last Friday night, the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony (KWS) marked the opening of the Conrad Centre for the Performing Arts (CCPA) in Downtown Kitchener with a gala event celebrating the launch of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony concert season. In spring 2009, the Manfred & Penny Conrad Family Foundation stepped in to preserve the former King Street Theatre Centre [...]

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The Vancouver Symphony is one of many Vancouver-area arts organizations taking part in a new arts loyalty program, Artspoints Rewards. Artspoints Rewards will encourage consumers to collect points and redeem them for arts and culture products and services, principally concert tickets. Orchestras projecting unsold seats for upcoming performances could make those seats available to the [...]

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The Canada Council for the Arts will be doing a live webcast of its Annual Public Meeting on September 30 here from 4-6 p.m. (Atlantic).  For those in the Moncton area, the meeting will take place at Théâtre l’Escaouette, 170 Botsford Street, Moncton, NB, and the public is cordially invited. Chair Joseph L. Rotman, Vice-Chair [...]

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The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra (ESO) has announced a four-year extension of William Eddins’ contract as Music Director. Presently in his fifth season at the helm of the orchestra with one year remaining on his current contract, this extension will see Eddins conducting the ESO through the 2014-2015 season. This partnership, which began in September 2005, [...]

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We really like reading media releases from member orchestras – and we’re delighted to include relevant and interesting updates from as many Canadian orchestras as we can in our weekly e-newsletter.  If you don’t find news about your orchestra in our newsletter, is it possible that we aren’t on your media list?  Help us make [...]

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Last week, the New Brunswick Youth Orchestra (NBYO) announced that it will be launching Sistema New Brunswick, a program designed to bring about transformational social change through music, this fall with a prototype children9s orchestra centre in Moncton.  The program, which will eventually be rolled out to a number of communities across the province,  will [...]

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Earlier this week, from its new home at the Telus Studio Theatre within the University of British Columbia’s Chan Centre, the National Broadcast Orchestra announced details of its first projects since the group was formed to replace the disbanded CBC Radio Orchestra. According to music director Alain Trudel, the National Broadcast Orchestra’s projects will include [...]

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It’s been an exciting time as member orchestras across the country share the details of their season-opening concerts.  Here are a few highlights:   Tafelmusik launches its 2009-2010 Toronto season with set of joint concerts with Montreal’s Arion Baroque Orchestra, featuring celebratory music by Jacques Danican Philidor, André Danican Philidor, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Johann Christian Bach [...]

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